[chaley]

Originally Posted by Mister L

I would like to automatically add books from a specific publisher to a Kobo collection, but only for certain publishers, not all. So I am trying to make a plugboard rule that says "if publisher is X then add book to collection Y" (and if publisher is not X then do nothing). I have made a custom column for the Kobo collections which is called #kobo. I have been looking in the user manual and I think this is possible using advanced formatting, based on the example given for series, but I cannot figure out how to do it...

Any help much appreciated (including confirmation it is not actually possible, so I can stop trying to figure out how. ).

Although it is possible to do this in a plugboard, it is the most difficult approach.

The right approach is to use a custom "column built from other columns" where the template computes the collection name. You don't say whether the collection value is a constant, the name of the publisher, or something else. If it is the name of the publisher then a template like this could work:

program:
	str_in_list('Baen, Daw, Orbit, Tom Doherty Associates', ',', $publisher, $publisher, '')

EDIT: You could do it without a custom column by using the "Collections Template" option in the Kobo driver. Depending on your "rules" the template above could work.